Heng Heng Hotel, Kratie, Day 2

Amy is still not feeling well today, and our plan of getting up early and biking to see the dolphins soon goes to pot. We wait in the room hoping Amy will feel enough at some point of the day.
It soon reaches 1 o clock and we decide to take the lunge. We've heard it's not a bad ride so we decide on bikes, which we soon regret after we leave the nice coastal path and head onto a bumpy dirt road that makes pedalling on our one gear bikes very hard. The ten mile ride takes well over an hour in the boiling heat, but we eventually make it. Amy still doesn't feel great, but is glad to get off the bike and onto the Mekong where there is a bit of a breeze.
We pay for an hour on the boat, and about 25 minutes in Amy is the only one of us to have caught a glimpse of one of the very endangered Irrawaddy dolphins. Soon 4 more boats join us though, and we soon spot where the dolpins are. The rest of the time is spent watching them regularly popping up for air, some in pairs, some right near the boat. It is lovely when all the boat engines are turned off and all you can hear is the lapping of the oars and the occasional water breaking when a dolphin appears.
The hour goes quuickly and we are soon back on the bikes, ready for the ten miles home. It's another long, painful journey, with Amy on the point of vomiting most of the way, but the views of the Sun setting over the Mekong make if worth it (for me, not Amy).
After we finally get back we have our last meal in Kratie, and prepare for our early start and bus to Siem Reap tomorrow! It has been very short, but Kratie is another Mekong riverside town that i would definitely reccomend for a visist.Read more